KneesUp
Guru
After the downpours of last week I've put my steel road bike in the cellar for the winter and swapped to a recent eBay purchased aluminium hybrid with disc brakes for the winter commute.
My commute is only short (5km ish) so I don't get all kitted up to ride it; I have a cape for rainy days which does a good enough job keeping my dry, and otherwise I just ride in my work stuff and maybe a cycling jacket. It's all downhill on the way in, so I don't have to worry about getting too hot.
Anyway - the steel bike, being older, has steel pedals and small toe clips with no straps, which keep my feet on the pedals even when it rains, but the pedals are smooth.
The hybrid has come with huge flat pedals with pins on them - which admittedly does mean your foot doesn't slip off, but when you need to lift a pedal to reposition it for getting going at lights and so on, the pins wreck your shoes. Ask me how I know.
I'm not at work today so thought I'd pick up some new pedals for it - I don't want anything fancy. Just what I consider normal pedals. However, all the places I might be able to get some today (Decathlon, Halfords, Evans, large local indie) only seem to sell plastic pedals you can’t fit toe clips too, or clipless pedals, or the same sort of A5 sized pedal with pins in.
I can find what I want online but not to collect today - which makes me think ‘normal’ pedals don’t sell well.
My question (if there is one - tbh this post is more of a vent) is how come the marketing won so effectively that it’s harder to find normal pedals to wear with normal shoes than it is to find pedals that require special shoes?
All, any recommendations.
My commute is only short (5km ish) so I don't get all kitted up to ride it; I have a cape for rainy days which does a good enough job keeping my dry, and otherwise I just ride in my work stuff and maybe a cycling jacket. It's all downhill on the way in, so I don't have to worry about getting too hot.
Anyway - the steel bike, being older, has steel pedals and small toe clips with no straps, which keep my feet on the pedals even when it rains, but the pedals are smooth.
The hybrid has come with huge flat pedals with pins on them - which admittedly does mean your foot doesn't slip off, but when you need to lift a pedal to reposition it for getting going at lights and so on, the pins wreck your shoes. Ask me how I know.
I'm not at work today so thought I'd pick up some new pedals for it - I don't want anything fancy. Just what I consider normal pedals. However, all the places I might be able to get some today (Decathlon, Halfords, Evans, large local indie) only seem to sell plastic pedals you can’t fit toe clips too, or clipless pedals, or the same sort of A5 sized pedal with pins in.
I can find what I want online but not to collect today - which makes me think ‘normal’ pedals don’t sell well.
My question (if there is one - tbh this post is more of a vent) is how come the marketing won so effectively that it’s harder to find normal pedals to wear with normal shoes than it is to find pedals that require special shoes?
All, any recommendations.
